Coil Construction

                My first coil construction was made to symbolize a mother butterfly and tiny butterflies always staying by her side. The first thing I did was construct the bottom piece with a slab. I drew out the shape I wanted to construct, and then I cut it out with the metal tool. After that, I made coils by hand and kept putting them on top of each other using slip. As I went higher, the coils got smaller. This is because I wanted the top to be smaller than the base. When I was happy with the height, I started to blend the inside and out with the circular edge of the wooden tool. Then I decided that I wanted to make
tiny butterflies. First I made a slab using the slab machine then I cut out variations of butterfly sizes. When I was done with how much butterflies I wanted, I cut each butterfly in the middle to make it have a 3-D effect. Then I started pasting them on my coil construction using slip on the surface and on the butterfly pieces. I did this with all the butterflies, then I was done. All I had to do was correct any bumps
on my final piece.

This is my favorite piece out of everything I created. The way I glazed this piece was using brushes. For the base of the piece I used one coat of blue green. For the butterflies I used a combination of yellow, peach, misty blue, and maroon. It came out perfect. And ofcourse I waxed the bottom.